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- Title: Stein v. Cty. Bd. of School Trustees
- Author : Supreme Court of Illinois
- Release Date : January 24, 1968
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 64 KB
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Plaintiffs petitioned the defendant County Board for detachment of certain territory from an elementary school district and
a high school district, and for its annexation to another adjoining elementary district and another high school district.
The County Board held that the petition was not signed by two thirds of the legal voters residing in the territory as required
by the School Code. Upon administrative review the trial court affirmed the decision of the County Board and the Appellate
Court, Second District, reversed. (85 Ill. App.2d 251.) We granted leave to appeal. The facts are fully set out in the opinion of the appellate court, and only so much of the factual situation will be repeated
as is necessary to an understanding of the case. The sufficiency of the petition filed on June 9, 1965, depends upon the
residence of one voter, Nancy Kolby. She was not one of the 19 who signed the petition. The County Board included her as a
resident of the territory and, by so doing found a total of 29 residents. Thus, it held on rehearing that the petition was
signed by fewer than two thirds of the legal voters. If she was not a resident, the total would have been 28 voters of which
19 would constitute more than two thirds, and the County Board would have jurisdiction.